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Socio-Economic Inequalities in Tobacco Consumption of the Older Adults in China : A Decomposition Method

Si, Yafei - 2018

socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption will, thus, help to develop targeted policies of public health control …. Data came from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2013, involving 17,663 respondents aged 45 and above … smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age …

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Do Primary Healthcare Facilities in More Remote Areas Provide More Medical Services? Spatial Evidence from Rural Western China

Shen, Chi; Lai, Sha; Deng, Qiwei; Cao, Dan; Zhao, Dantong; … - 2023

Primary healthcare institutions (PHIs) in China have experienced a sizable decline in medical services in recent years. Despite the large regional disparities in China, there is a lack of evidence on the differential patterns of medical services offered by PHIs, especially from a spatial...

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Household Decision Making in Rural China : Using Experiments to Estimate the Influences of Spouses

Carlsson, Fredrik - 2010

Many economic decisions are made jointly within households. This raises the question about spouses' relative influence on joint decisions and the determinants of relative influence. Using a controlled experiment (on inter-temporal choice), we let each spouse first make individual decisions and...

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Household Decision Making and the Influence of Spouses' Income, Education, and Communist Party Membership : A Field Experiment in Rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China. Spouses have to choose between risky lotteries, first separately and then jointly. We find that spouses' individual risk preferences are more similar the richer the household and the...

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